On Wednesday 13th May 2026, Art Collection Director Lindsay Taylor will speak at Peer to Peer: UK/Ukraine online Symposium. This event brings together cultural practitioners, teachers, curators, archivists, researchers and students to explore and exchange knowledge and skills about different aspects of photography.
Hosted by the Ukrainian Photography NGO in collaboration with Lviv National Academy of Arts, Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool), University of Salford (Manchester). Speakers will discuss socially engaged approaches to photography, photographic practices in higher education, photographic response to the ecological crisis, and aspects of decolonisation in the East of Europe.
The Symposium talks will be available online with English translation.
Programme
8am: Intro from Lucy Zoria, Head of Arts at British Council Ukraine
8.20am: Photography and interaction with the public
(Elena Subach, photographer, Ukraine; Sarah Fisher, Executive Director of Open Eye Gallery; Tadhg Devlin, photographer, teacher, Head of social practice at Open Eye Gallery)
9.20am–9.30am: break
9.30am–10.30am: Collections, commissioning and decolonial perspectives
(Lindsay Taylor, Director of the University of Salford Art Collection, Andrii Usach and Аnna Yatsenko, NGO After Silence (Lviv)
10.30am–11.30am: Photographic Practices in Higher Education: Addressing Contemporary Challenges
(Daryna Skrynnyk-Myska, Head of the Department of Contemporary Art Practices at the Lviv National Academy of Arts; Caroline Edge, Co-Programme Leader BA Photography at the University of Salford, Manchester)
11.30am–12.30pm: break
12.30pm–1.30pm: Ecological crisis, nature and photographic response
(Yan Wang Preston, artist, UK; Kateryna Pokora, artist, Ukraine)
1.30pm–2.30pm: Photo archives of Eastern Europe and decolonisation
(Max Gorbatskyi, Head of Exhibitions at Open Eye Gallery, founder of Ukrainian.Photographies platform; Iryna Sklokina, historian and researcher, the Centre for Urban History (Lviv); Ileana L. Selejan, curator, lecturer in Art History, Culture and Society, University of Edinburgh)
‘Peer to Peer: UK/Ukraine’ is supported by the British Council’s UK→Ukraine: Culture Sync programme.
Please note this event will be hosted online.
All welcome and free to attend! For further event details please visit the official event page.
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